[R] Write to a file

Thomas Lumley
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:38:04 -0000

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Hongli Li wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a vector of list in to a file. I used the following
>        write(result,file="ttest.txt")
> I got an error message
>        Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) :
>                  argument 1 not yet handled by cat
>
> Then I tested the property of my object
>
> > is.vector(result[])
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.list(result[])
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.list(result)
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.vector(result)
> [1] TRUE
>
> I don't understand why my list of vector can not be handled by cat.
>

write is for writing matrices. As the documentation for write() suggests,
see save() and write.table() for other possibilities (and dump())

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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